Test Scripting Contracts in Reading

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Test Scripting skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Scripting over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 69 92
Rank change year-on-year -28 +23 -33
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 3 15 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.25% 1.42% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 1.56% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 7
10th Percentile - £331 £345
25th Percentile - £490 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £515 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.17% +8.42% +35.71%
75th Percentile £555 £580 £535
90th Percentile £582 - £575
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £515 £495
% change year-on-year -1.17% +4.04% +1.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Test Scripting is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,077 960 1,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.50% 91.17% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 635 819
10th Percentile £213 £363 £253
25th Percentile £402 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £656 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £657
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.67% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 23 8
10th Percentile £26.10 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £84.40 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.30 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.02% +174.67% -2.09%

Test Scripting
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Test Scripting as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Test Scripting in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Test Scripting in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Scripting in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Test Scripting in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) QA Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) QA Test Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Service Operations Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) E-business
1 2 (66.67%) Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle